Serenity

[smokingboot]

Well, that was interesting.

Proof that sci-fi films don't need a big budget, gadgets, aliens and state-of-the-art starships. No getting past it; whatever the genre, however grand the toys, words do help. There's more vivacity here in the first 10 minutes than in all the ponderous hours of latter-day Star Bores. It doesn't even have a complex story, but it has light fast dialogue, and excellent little touches; dinosaurs on the dashboard, ordinary guns, funky gravestones. It also has teenage ninja waifs (Joss, you're so not over it) but at least she isn't Buffy.

It was cute though I don't need to see it again. Haven't watched Firefly, and this prompts me to give it a go. Next: Howl's Moving Castle, if I can find anywhere in the area screening it.

And now. Work. Ugh.

[later amended to add] the problem with work is that nothing does.

Comments

[lauremer.livejournal.com]

I think it has floated off to where ever films go once they have been on a couple of weeks.

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